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Sunny smile –
Kent student Jess Smith reveals that she was the baby who played the sun on the Teletubbies, a BBC TV show in the 80s & 90s.
Joe Cocker dies –
Joe Cocker, famous for his version of the Beatles “With A Little Help From My Friends” which reached number one in 1968, has died from cancer.
Joe Cocker
Total indulgence –
Costa Coffee in the UK is selling 100,000 sticky toffee latte a week during the festive season. The largest ‘massimo’ size has around 598 calories, contains up to 75g of sugar – nearly 19 teaspoons, or twice the amount in a can of Coke.
Beep-beep –
Google launch the second version of their self-driving car which has been described a toy police car.
Tit-for-tat attack? –
North Korea internet shut down for 9 hours and just days after the state was accused of a major hack on Sony Pictures in the state. Speculation is that the US government caused the outage in retribution.
Video of the Day –
Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends
List of the day –
Joe Cocker Studio Albums [from Wikipedia] –
Studio albums[edit]
- With a Little Help from My Friends(1969)
- Joe Cocker! (1969)
- Joe Cocker (1972/EU: 1973)
- I Can Stand a Little Rain (1974)
- Jamaica Say You Will (1975)
- Stingray (1976)
- Luxury You Can Afford (1978)
- Sheffield Steel (1982)
- Civilized Man (1984)
- Cocker (1986)
- Unchain My Heart (1987)
- One Night of Sin (1989)
- Night Calls (1991/US: 1992)
- Have a Little Faith (1994)
- Organic (1996)
- Across from Midnight (1997)
- No Ordinary World (1999/US: 2000)
- Respect Yourself (2002)
- Heart & Soul (2004/US: 2005)
- Hymn for My Soul (2007/US: 2008)
- Hard Knocks (2010/US: 2012)
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in North-West Pakistan
- 2014 Peshawar school attack
- Following the December 17 announcement that it would lift its moratorium on terror-related death penalty cases,Pakistan announces that it will execute 500 militants in the coming weeks. (AFP)
- 2014 Peshawar school attack
- North Korea experiences severe internet outages. (AP)
- Bombings hit the Nigerian cities of Gombe and Bauchi, killing at least 26 people. (BBC)
- Disasters and accidents
- An out-of-control dustbin lorry in the Queen Street and George Square areas of Glasgow, Scotland, kills at least six people. (BBC)
- International relations
- 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
- Kazakhstan renews its military cooperation with Ukraine, to which it promises vital supplies of coal, following a visit toKiev by the Kazakh leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev. (Fox News)
- Human rights in North Korea
- Eleven (11) of 15 United Nations Security Council members approve placing North Korea’s human rights record on the Council’s agenda. Russia and China oppose the decision while Chad and Nigeria abstain. This is the first time this issue has been debated by the Security Council. Procedurally, once a topic makes the agenda, that issue can be brought up again at any time. (Business Insider) (The Chosun Ilbo)
- Law and crime
- The US CFTC fines Deutsche Bank $3B over customer fund flaws. (Reuters via FOX Business)
- Politics and elections
- A federal land swap in Arizona green lights the US’s deepest (1.3 miles) and largest (1.6b tons) copper mine. (FOX News)
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